No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease. Margaret Thatcher More Quotes by Margaret Thatcher More Quotes From Margaret Thatcher When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty. Margaret Thatcher achievement government law We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers. Margaret Thatcher creating hard-work men They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary. Margaret Thatcher rotten fighting people Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice! Margaret Thatcher marine news force I want my money back! Margaret Thatcher want I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk. Margaret Thatcher determination self law The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out. Margaret Thatcher peaceful government want Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend. Margaret Thatcher essence men country To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the West created Marx and his successors, among whom must be numbered many of those who advised the Third World leaders in post-war years. Margaret Thatcher leader war years I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property. Margaret Thatcher two-nations opportunity men I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy. Margaret Thatcher should should-have law The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services of one kind or another. But this foolish as well as muddled. It is foolish because left-of-centre parties will always be able to outbid right-of-centre ones in this auction - after all, that is why they are on the left in the first place. The muddle arises because once we concede that public spending and taxation are than a necessary evil we have lost sight of the core values of freedom. Margaret Thatcher party attachment sight I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down. Margaret Thatcher election conservative democracy The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty. Margaret Thatcher riches poverty temptation In order to unscramble some eggs the leader gotta have some balls Margaret Thatcher eggs leader order Consensus negates leadership. Margaret Thatcher consensus This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you. Margaret Thatcher class way thinking Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister. Margaret Thatcher decision night thinking We must not fall into the mistake of thinking that it is America that trades with Taiwan or Europe that trades with Asia. The truth is that it is American companies that trade with Taiwanese companies. Margaret Thatcher mistake fall thinking It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at work. He later wrote of his astonishment at finding the that the British Parliament actually made laws and fixed punishments for their infraction - because unlike Muslims the English had not accepted a divine law revealed from heaven and therefore had to resort to such unsatisfactory expedients. Muslims still understand the expression 'the rule of law' very differently than do most Westerners. Margaret Thatcher taken expression law
